US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 14 for "Workflow coordination in coordination namespace" (New York, Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,935, issued on April 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Workflow coordination in coordination namespace" was invented by Ravi Nair (Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.), Charles R. Johns (Austin, Texas), James A. Kahle (Austin, Texas) and Constantinos Evangelinos (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is described that coordinates workflow between nodes that include a local node and remote nodes. A location suggestion is received at a provider application. The location suggestion corresponds to a preferred node from the group of nodes where a named data element should be stored. The n...